signal maintainer failed to rotate the gong. Repeated striking in the same place creates a divit in the gong. If not rotated, the gong will crack, giving you what you have here
I love the old fashioned sound of that WCH bell. It sounds like a cow bell! At first I thought that the sensors were so bad that the cars were activating the signals.
Not really. There is no part to freeze to the tracks. It is all done by electrical signals sent down the tracks. This particular day, the detection cards inside the relay case were screwed up. :)
There are 5 tracks at this crossing, but 2 tracks are covered by the first set of signals. It wasn't the cold, but the electronics that control the signals in the case.
+Flying Eagle TV It does. Doesn't it? They replaced the Mecanical Bells with E-Bells though a couple of years later, after owensri2 moved to another State.
+bkriegel95 Well, I can see which side by looking on Google Maps. The Video starts off on the East Side. The West Side is later in the Video and in Part 2 at ua-cam.com/video/jxTnmENyyz8/v-deo.html.
No, I don't use a high-def video camera. I just have a regular Sony Handycam DVD camcorder. It does take pretty good quality videos. UA-cam tends to downgrade the quality quite a bit. The original video that's on my computer before I uploaded it is very clear.
Kinda miss the old aging sound of the Western Cullen Hayes mechanical bells...but, some types of e-bells are starting to grow on me, especially the Safetran Type 1 E-Bell. These Bells sound like they are beyond need of adjustment, but replacement, glad to hear they indeed were replaced. :)
As in that the Front Lights on the Mast Signal on the West Side are supposed to be off because of nothing on that Track & that it would only be activated with the Back Lights on the Gated Signal, if there's a Train or a Malfunction on that Track while the East Side was malfunctioning at the time. Right?
Either it is a malfunction, or someone could just be opening and closing a circuit in the railroad house, or people could be somehow shunting the track, although opening the circuit is shutning the track as well. they could be pre-testing it.
No, not on that particular day. Anyways, today (February 7, 2008)I went by there, and the same track was malfunctioning again! This time, it was due to the salt and slush in the island, or by the roadway. It just needed the voltage adjusted to compensate for the lowered resistance.
Salt on the crossing mixing with water and creating a conductive path between the rails? Very much doubt it was train detection system electrical components.
Yeah, I called CN, that's whos tracks it is. It was a faulty calibration on the motion sensor cards in the signal case. The cars had nothing to do with it.
Actually, the correct way is for the bell to ring until the gate is down all the way, and then it shuts off. I don't care for that way, but I do like it to ring the way you like. For some reason, CN doesn't wire the bell that way.
When I was a kid back in the 60’s and early 70’s I used to cut the cable running along side the tracks about 400 feet down and bring the gates down. Mostly over off Northline although I spent a lot of time down near Pennsylvania to Grove St. I started hopping trains at around 6-7 yrs old right there near Pennsylvania. 😂
The crusty 2nd Gen WC Hayes sound like Harry Potter but his voice is epic too bad the other mechanical bells were replaced with Siemens NEG or General Singals on this malfunctioned crossing
Weird, can you tell me who owns each track? I thought I saw a GT Engine on a CN line. That crossing really messed up, what do you think is causing that?
WT thats weird.i live in a city and i never seen that happen.well i crossed some rail roads but i didnt saw that.but i felt like i heard that noise for a few sec LOLOLOZL
It's easy. I just drive by each crossing a few times a week...and you're almost always able to catch something like this at one of them...as there are 4 different track circuts at each crossing...and just do the math as to how many things could possibly go wrong with 50 or so circuits through this line here.
Joshua Herbert signal maintainer failed to rotate the gong. Repeated striking in the same place creates a divit in the gong. If not rotated, the gong will crack, giving you what you have here.
+Pacific Zone Railfan Did you know that what you said in your Comment became true? A couple of years later from this Video, they upgraded this Railroad Crossing, as it now has E-Bells on all Signals of that Railroad Crossing while the Gate Mechanism on both sides although stay the same.
Well, that would be funny if Cows came through the Railroad Crossing because of that Cow Sounding Mechanical Bell. Good thing it got replaced with an Electronic Bell later on, when this Railroad Crossing got updated with keeping the Gate Mechanism on both sides the same. 🙂
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signal maintainer failed to rotate the gong. Repeated striking in the same place creates a divit in the gong. If not rotated, the gong will crack, giving you what you have here
BBT609 yea
We have a crossing here in Tampa which both of its wch bells have cracked gongs and they are still there as of today.
Erich Fonseca I would take that lol
Sounds like a cowbell.
I love the wch cowbell lol
I love the old fashioned sound of that WCH bell. It sounds like a cow bell! At first I thought that the sensors were so bad that the cars were activating the signals.
A crossing bell is not supposed to sound like that.
@@sandiegotrafficlightstrain354 Appears the gong was cracked.
Not really. There is no part to freeze to the tracks. It is all done by electrical signals sent down the tracks. This particular day, the detection cards inside the relay case were screwed up. :)
There are 5 tracks at this crossing, but 2 tracks are covered by the first set of signals. It wasn't the cold, but the electronics that control the signals in the case.
1:33 the bell sounds kinda weird
+Flying Eagle TV It does. Doesn't it? They replaced the Mecanical Bells with E-Bells though a couple of years later, after owensri2 moved to another State.
It sounds like that bell from that wiscrac99 video
Sounds more like a cow bell
+bkregel95 Is it the East Side with the Mechanical Bells?
I'm not sure. I've never been there
+bkriegel95 Well, I can see which side by looking on Google Maps. The Video starts off on the East Side. The West Side is later in the Video and in Part 2 at ua-cam.com/video/jxTnmENyyz8/v-deo.html.
I agree. It really does.
That crossing looks like its old anyways.
No, I don't use a high-def video camera. I just have a regular Sony Handycam DVD camcorder. It does take pretty good quality videos. UA-cam tends to downgrade the quality quite a bit. The original video that's on my computer before I uploaded it is very clear.
Kinda miss the old aging sound of the Western Cullen Hayes mechanical bells...but, some types of e-bells are starting to grow on me, especially the Safetran Type 1 E-Bell. These Bells sound like they are beyond need of adjustment, but replacement, glad to hear they indeed were replaced. :)
What a crusty sounding mechanical bell. Love it
uh the mast signal at 2:19 those front lights shouldn't be on its the other track that's malfuctioning
As in that the Front Lights on the Mast Signal on the West Side are supposed to be off because of nothing on that Track & that it would only be activated with the Back Lights on the Gated Signal, if there's a Train or a Malfunction on that Track while the East Side was malfunctioning at the time. Right?
I use to live just a few blocks down from these tracks!! Miss hearing the train
wat bell is that, kind of sounds like the bell is broken
I like how the Gate lights are LEDS but the crossing lights are Incodecent
Sounds like the WCH Mechaincal Bell at 39th St in Tampa.
Either it is a malfunction, or someone could just be opening and closing a circuit in the railroad house, or people could be somehow shunting the track, although opening the circuit is shutning the track as well. they could be pre-testing it.
No, not on that particular day. Anyways, today (February 7, 2008)I went by there, and the same track was malfunctioning again! This time, it was due to the salt and slush in the island, or by the roadway. It just needed the voltage adjusted to compensate for the lowered resistance.
2:59 when u turned around
The mast signal front lights were on.
So it be both tracks
Nice catch!
Poor bell is beat to death.
Salt water providing sufficient conductive path between rails?
What did you say at 2:37?
Salt on the crossing mixing with water and creating a conductive path between the rails?
Very much doubt it was train detection system electrical components.
Yeah, I called CN, that's whos tracks it is. It was a faulty calibration on the motion sensor cards in the signal case. The cars had nothing to do with it.
What do you mean?
Looks like in the movie maximum overdrive when the car drives across the tracks and the crossing turns on
The bells on the cantilever sound like someone hitting a metal bucket with a shovel.
I looked on google maps and as of 7/2013 the M-Bells are no longer there. Been replaced by safetran type 2 E-Bell.
Whoever got the cowbell sounding bell was lucky
+realimbored668 I disagree, that thing sounds terrible. But I have heard worse, too.
Omg that bell
Actually, the correct way is for the bell to ring until the gate is down all the way, and then it shuts off. I don't care for that way, but I do like it to ring the way you like. For some reason, CN doesn't wire the bell that way.
Because in Canada the law requires that all railroad crossing bills sound until the gates have raised completely.
When I was a kid back in the 60’s and early 70’s I used to cut the cable running along side the tracks about 400 feet down and bring the gates down. Mostly over off Northline although I spent a lot of time down near Pennsylvania to Grove St. I started hopping trains at around 6-7 yrs old right there near Pennsylvania. 😂
Hey I think my friend has this bell from that crossing sounds and looks exactly like it.
Ok is there a video of it
OakCreek Railroad Productions no reply
ha ha ha ha ha lol the gate's going into a fit lol this is gooooooooooood :P :)
Yeah, I know. I was there when they replaced it. It now is a Safetran Type 3 electronic bell. :)
The crusty 2nd Gen WC Hayes sound like Harry Potter but his voice is epic too bad the other mechanical bells were replaced with Siemens NEG or General Singals on this malfunctioned crossing
makes me feel so confident in railway safety systems now
Which track ended up malfunctioning?
First the East Side, then the West Side in Part 2 at ua-cam.com/video/jxTnmENyyz8/v-deo.html.
what kind of bell was that
Probably a cowbell
Broken WCH Mechanical bell
Sounds like the bell is shot.
The bell seems to be broken also
I been here! The bells dont sound like this no more! They toke a track our there for more info!
@computersmasher, i agree, at first its funny then it starts driving me bonkers
owensri2, was it 1 of the Outer Tracks with the Gates that were malfunctioning, causing the Back Lights to flash?
They aren't malfunctioning, it's just a bunch of invisible trains.
Except that Invisible Trains don't exist, unless this Video here was by edit or so.
Where's the train?
how does this happen
It is. Sounds like a birds nest is in it or something is clogging it.
Sounds more like the gong is cracked
its the east track that's malfunctioning not the shoreline west track
aww i love the WCH M bells
Weird, can you tell me who owns each track? I thought I saw a GT Engine on a CN line.
That crossing really messed up, what do you think is causing that?
Its caused by snow on the tracks that makes it shortcut.
WT thats weird.i live in a city and i never seen that happen.well i crossed some rail roads but i didnt saw that.but i felt like i heard that noise for a few sec LOLOLOZL
does each side correspond (one goes down, other one does the same)?
You mean the Gates on both the Outer Tracks?
Me too. Too bad the bell is gone now... :(
People passing by as crossing guards coming down: HOLY SHIT WTF?!?!
Seems like it's trigger sensitive but on the road instead of the tracks.
Just wondering. But how many tracks where there at that Crossing?
5 tracks
How many tracks?
Mondo Mikhail 5
It's easy. I just drive by each crossing a few times a week...and you're almost always able to catch something like this at one of them...as there are 4 different track circuts at each crossing...and just do the math as to how many things could possibly go wrong with 50 or so circuits through this line here.
WOW!
@TrainfanCasey8 there are four tracks.
you can see the attachment
that sounds like a RACO bell that went bad
@owensri2 The bell was clearly on its death throes.
Sorry, didn't have my camcorder with me that day. It wasn't nothing special, just the gates were staying down like Antoine St. was.
Don't forget Mill St. as well. 😉
The crossing bell sounds like a cowbell
lol. More cowbell!
Joshua Herbert signal maintainer failed to rotate the gong. Repeated striking in the same place creates a divit in the gong. If not rotated, the gong will crack, giving you what you have here.
BBT609 That's weird. Well, why don't just either replace it or fix?
Cause he was too lazy to fix a REAL bell so he threw a E Bell up there.
Just like that wiscrac99 vid
lol wow
what a fucked up crossing ! lmao
must've been fun recording this ! :D
that wierd bell needs to be adjusted soon
the cn tracks were malfuctioning
lol, i bet it was for a train to stop so the car could go on by, lol!!
It's fixed.
We have one dangerous crossing in that kind of condition. Wonder what it does when an actual train comes.
That crossing bell sounds like a cow bell!
@Master784 ya i hate the electronic bell =(
that bell needs to be fixed
That bell! It will probably get replaced with an electronic one. A pity if that happens.
You never know maybe it was doing that to stay unfrozen
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COWBELL!? MOO MOO MOO
Yeah, this usually never happens.
it happend to us it done its jobe then stade on for 10 more minites they had to cut the power at that unit
wch bells do not sound like that
They somehow did for this Railroad Crossing way back then before the upgrade.
hey owensri2 i know wich track is malfunctioning because the back lights are on
the crossing was probly bored and wanted too mess with the cars =P
LOL
That's A Lot Of Railroad Crossings.
MORE COWBELL!
kinda bell is that lol
Cow bell crossing!!
This Crossing needs A-Lot of Help! Call 1800-This Crossing Needs Help!
I like the bell
bad bell
lol That's a good one!!
75% of comments on this video: *COWBELL*
its maxium over drive lol
4:35
???
they should get E-Bells instead
The WCH M-Bell has now been replaced with a Safetran Type 3 E-Bell.
On the other cantilever, there is a Safetran Type 3 E-Bell and a Safetran Type 2 E-Bell or a General Signals Type 2 E-Bell.
Or it maybe a General Signals Type 1 E-Bell.
+Pacific Zone Railfan Did you know that what you said in your Comment became true? A couple of years later from this Video, they upgraded this Railroad Crossing, as it now has E-Bells on all Signals of that Railroad Crossing while the Gate Mechanism on both sides although stay the same.
@@kristincrodian6627 the West Side signals has safetran type 3 e-bells ans General Signals type 2 e-bell
*bell rings* COW COW COW COW COW COW COW COW
Where's the train?
Well, that would be funny if Cows came through the Railroad Crossing because of that Cow Sounding Mechanical Bell.
Good thing it got replaced with an Electronic Bell later on, when this Railroad Crossing got updated with keeping the Gate Mechanism on both sides the same. 🙂
👍Good
Maybe it's malfunction because maybe it's testing the system and maybe the test failed so it goes on and off up and downfor another test too lmao
ha ha
WOW wad
Cows Crossing
wtf